12/07/2005 |
Latin American seaports forced to confront global terrorismMartin Edwin Andersen | Government Security News
Ready for a little good news? Latin America and the Caribbean, a tumultuous region that in the 1990s was the scene of three deadly attacks from Islamist fundamentalists, is starting to focus greater attention on security for one of the pillars that sustain its economic well being -- its seaports. ...

11/07/2005 |
Federal Government Relies on Unrealistic Threat Scenarios, Says ExpertUnconventional Concepts Inc. | YubaNet
Nearly four years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the federal government still relies on unrealistic threat scenarios and has failed to create an effective national disaster response capability, a leading emergency preparedness expert tells GSN: Government Security News ( http://www.gsnmagazine.com/ ). ...

11/07/2005 |
Ask The ExpertGSN Staff | Government Security News
Michael Hopmeier certainly looks at the Big Picture. As “chief of innovative and unconventional concepts” at Unconventional Concepts, Inc., a consulting firm based in Mary Esther, FL, that has worked with organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Disaster Medical System, FBI and the Israeli Defense Forces, Hopmeier brings a refreshingly objective and candid judgment to the deadly serious business of planning for disasters. In a wide-ranging conversation across the preparedness landscape, GSN’s Jacob Goodwin peppered Hopmeier with a series of disparate questions along a single under-lying theme: How can America best prepare itself for a major emergency? ...

11/07/2005 |
The London BombingsDavid Horowitz | Front Page Magazine
Of course everyone will take from the bombings in London the “lessons” they’re already seeking. The left claims that the bombings show the war in Iraq is producing the terror instead of fighting it, as though attacks on Muslims (so their logic goes) are of concern to the terrorists. ...

10/07/2005 |
Matt Cooper's Source. What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporterMichael Isikoff | Newsweek Internacional
July 18 issue - It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation ..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA. ...